Groundwater sapping as the cause of irreversible desertification of Hunshandake Sandy Lands, Inner M...
Groundwater sapping as the cause of irreversible desertification of Hunshandake Sandy Lands, Inner Mongolia, northern China
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United States: National Academy of Sciences
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English
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United States: National Academy of Sciences
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In the middle-to-late Holocene, Earth’s monsoonal regions experienced catastrophic precipitation decreases that produced green to desert state shifts. Resulting hydrologic regime change negatively impacted water availability and Neolithic cultures. Whereas mid-Holocene drying is commonly attributed to slow insolation reduction and subsequent nonlin...
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Groundwater sapping as the cause of irreversible desertification of Hunshandake Sandy Lands, Inner Mongolia, northern China
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1652408456
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1652408456
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0027-8424
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1091-6490
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10.1073/pnas.1418090112
